Professional Ethics Its Foundations And Practices

Author: AbduRezak Abdulahi Hashi

Publisher: IIUM Press

ISBN: 9789674184384

Pages: 480pp

Year: 2019

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Price: RM70

This book, Professional Ethics: Its Foundations and Practices uses comparative and analytical methods, and addresses the foundations, principles and approaches of ethics in relation to professional practices. Besides highlighting the meaning and concepts of moral ideals, this book also illustrates moral philosophies of leading conventional moral theories like moral egoism, altruism, utilitarianism, relativism, deontology and virtues theories of ethics, as well as moral concepts of major religious thoughts including Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam. With somewhat detailed explanations, this work offers a descriptive account on the genesis, the scope, the foundations, principles, virtues and milestones of the Islamic moral system. The scope and the components of professional ethics both from conventional and Islamic perspectives are then comparatively elucidated in the relevant chapters of this book. Additionally, it presents an abridged explanations of the principles of applied ethics, its themes and practices in the given professional fields such as business, administration, engineering, politics, medicine and bioethics. This work does not however present meta-ethical analysis of the meaning and concepts of ethics, nor does it aim to present a normative account of morality. Rather this work seeks to understand applications of theoretical and formal ethics in real problematic issues to solve actual dilemmas in given professions.

ABDUREZAK ABDULAHI HASHI (PhD), is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Science, International Islamic University Malaysia (HUM). His PhD was on comparative theology, particularly on the Abrahamic Faiths. Apart from being chair person and co-chair person for a number of international academic conferences, seminars and workshops, he himself was a speaker and presenter in various international academic conferences in Turkey, Malaysia, Australia and the United States of America. His academic books includes, among others, The Scholarship of Comparative Religion from Islamic perspective: Concepts and Methods, MUM Press, 2012); The Study of Religious Traditions: Approaches and Theories (HUM Press, 2014); Bioethics: A Comparative Study of its Concepts, Issues and Approaches (HUM Press, 2015); Students' Encyclopaedia of Religious Beliefs. and Traditions (Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyyah, 2015); Worldviews and Belief Systems: A Comparative Introduction (Fajar Ulung Sdn Bhd, 2016).